Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, edited by Harry T. Moore. Insight into the changing, always tempestuous moods of a prickly and tender novelist...
...trouble comes when the female lays her eggs. She picks a tender twig, saws a slit in it with a rasplike ovipositor on her stern, lays her eggs in the slit, and soon dies. The weakened limbs may break or die too. After several weeks the eggs hatch, the larvae crawl out and drop down on the ground where they bury themselves for 16 years, 10½ months. Then, on the first hot day of May, they climb out of the ground, shed their shells, sprout wings and start a plague...
...keep few fishes, Who is that rose in that blind house? And all slim, gracious blind planes are coming, They cry badly along a rose, To leap is stuffy, to crawl was tender...
...world, human love has no future. And little religious comfort. (The fish was an early symbol of Christian faith, now reduced-hence "few fishes.") Mirth, too, has shrunk to "narrow laughs," though the poet, like Western man himself, fondly recalls the lost gentleness of childhood ("to crawl was tender...
Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull. A lovingly exhaustive biography of a writer whose talent was a diamond very nearly as big as the Ritz, but whose life was a far from tender nightmare...